Peer-reviewed Papers

TheWebConf 2019: Lin, A.Y., Cranshaw, J., and Counts, Scott. (2019) Forecasting U.S. Domestic Migration Using Internet Search Queries. Proceedings of the 2019 World Wide Web Conference. International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee, 2019. PDF

AAAI ICWSM 2018: He, S., Lin, A.Y., Adar, E., and Hecht, B. (2018) The_Tower_of_Babel.jpg: The Diversity of Visual Encyclopedic Knowledge Across Wikipedia Language Editions. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (AAAI ICWSM ’18). Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press. Best Paper Award | PDF | System Demo

WWW 2018: Lin, A.Y., Ford, J., Adar, E., and Hecht, B. (2018) VizByWiki: Mining Data Visualizations from the Web to Enrich News Articles. Proceedings of the 2018 World Wide Web Conference. International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee, 2018. PDF

CSCW 2018: Yu, B., Wang, X., Lin, Y., Ren, Y., Terveen, L., Zhu, H. Out With The Old, In With The New? Unpacking Member Turnover in Online Production Groups. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 1, 2, Article 117. PDF

ACM CHI 2017: Lin, Y., Kuehl, K., Schöning. J., Hecht, B. (2017) Understanding “Death by GPS”: A Systematic Study of Catastrophic Incidents Associated with Personal Navigation Technologies. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (CHI 2017) New York: ACM Press PDF | Interactive Map | Dataset

ACM CHI 2017: Lin, Y. *, Colley, A.*, Thebault-Spieker, J.*, Häkkilä, J., Nunes, N., Wenig, D., Kuehl, K., Fischman, B., Nisi, V., Runge, N., Degraen, D., Hecht, B.**, Schöning, J**. (2017). The Geography of Pokémon GO: Beneficial and Problematic Effects on Places and Movement. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017). New York : ACM Press. * Indicates co-first authors, ** Indicates co-Principal Investigators. PDF | Dataset

ACM CHI 2017: Hall, A., McRoberts, S., Thebault-Spieker, J., Lin, Y., Sen, S., Hecht, B., Terveen, L. (2017) Freedom versus Standardization: Structured Data Generation in a Peer Production Community. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017). New York: ACM Press PDF

ACM CSCW 2017: Lin, Y., Yu, B., Hall, A., and Hecht, B. (2017) Problematizing and Addressing the Article-as-Concept Assumption in Wikipedia. Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2017). New York: ACM Press. PDF

ACM CHI 2016: Johnson, I., Lin, Y., Li, T., Hall, A., Halfaker, A., Schöning, J., and Hecht, B. (2016) Not at Home on the Range: Peer Production and the Urban/Rural Divide. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2016) . New York: ACM Press Link | PDF

ISPRS/IGU Joint Conference: Lin, Allen, and Francis Harvey. “Spatial Variation of Privacy Measured Through Individual Uniqueness Based on Simple US Demographics Data.” Advances in Spatial Data Handling and Analysis. Springer International Publishing, 2015. 289-298. Link

Master Thesis

Geography M.A. master thesis, Department of Geography, Environment and Society, the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. PDF